HOBBIES & INTERESTS

• Bowling
• Crafts
• DYI home improvement projects
• Graphic design
• Humanitarian issues
• Movies: action, biography, comedy, documentary, mystery
• Music: songwriting, singing, electronic keyboard
• Scrabble & word puzzles
• Sewing
• Travel
• Video game favourites:
  • Alias
  • Assassin’s Creed
  • Drake’s Uncharted
  • Guild Wars
  • Just Cause
  • Tomb Raider
  • Witcher
  • Red Dead Redemption
• Walking
• Writing

ACCOMPLISHMENTS

• 2016
  • Published Book – Birth, Death & Everything Between on Amazon
•  2012
  • Published Book (entire work): Charges – answers from the universe, Fast Pencil
• 1995-1997
  • Editor’s Choice Awards, National Library of Poetry
• 1996
  • International Poet of Merit Award, International Society of Poets
• 1994
  • Published Book (partial work): Charges – Inspirational Poetry, Carlton Press, New York, NY
• 1987
  • Best Waitress Award, Nanaimo, BC
• 1981-present
  • Single parent of one son
• 1979-1980
  • Toured and worked in Australia solo

VOLUNTEER – PAST

• Council of Canadians Mid-Island (Nanaimo) Chapter
  • Official Contact, Treasurer, Steering Committee
  • Website design & maintenance, newsletter design & distribution, Facebook
  • Film review
• Treasurer, Nanaimo Women’s Business Network
• Group Leader, Americana Leadership College, Nanaimo, BC
• Fundraiser, Big Brothers of Canada, Nanaimo, BC
• Leader, Beavers (Boy Scouts of Canada), Nanaimo, BC
• RCMP Auxiliary Police, Nanaimo, BC